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    Emily Hong's Swim Lessons

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    now become her favorite activity. Before she started swimming, Hong tried many other sports. The only other sport that she continued to play was basketball, but it did not have the same impact on her as swimming does. After only two seasons, Hong quit basketball and decided to devote her time to the swim lessons she had just begun. Her parents were supportive of this decision because they could already tell that she was more devoted to swimming. Hong first started taking swim lessons at the…

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    Ryan Lochte

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    or have at least heard of him. Ryan Lochte is an 12 time Olympic medalist in the sport of swimming. He has been competing in the Olympics since 2012 and currently holds the World Records in the 100m, 200m, and the 400m. This past summer, Olympians from every country traveled to Rio to compete in the 2016 Summer Olympics. Ryan Lochte was one of these Olympians and went to compete in the sport of swimming. The Olympian was very successful in the games as he normally is, when it comes to the…

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    In the story "The Black Pearl" the boy faced many challenges while trying to get the pearl. One challenge that he faced was that he could not stay down in the cave for that long because he would loose his breath " On my second dive I had no sooner reached the bottom than a shadow fell across the bed where I was working. It was the shadow of a gray shark, one of the friendly ones, but by the time he had drifted away my breath was gone." (15) and "So I failed to pry the shell loose before my lungs…

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    But his life won't always revolve around swimming. He has a fiancée named Nicole since February twenty-ninth. Also, a few months ago that they had a little swimmer on the way and on the fifth of May, Boomer Robert Phelps was born. He said being a father is a better feeling than earning all of his Olympic medals. At thirty years old you would be thinking he would be done with swimming. In 2012 he announced he was retiring but at the Rio Olympics this summer, Michael…

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    Through the many years of my swimming career, the sport has transformed me into the adult I am today. For the past twelve years, I have called the Woonsocket YMCA pool my home. I learned how to swim there at five years old, joined the swim team at seven, and finished off my high school swimming career at the age of seventeen. Over the years, I have made lifelong friendships, unforgettable memories, and achieved goals set for myself and the team. My swimming career has been primarily known for…

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    ready for practice, I entered the pool area where the fragrance of chlorine filled my lungs, raised me out of my dreary state, and filled me with an unexplainable blend of comfort and anticipation. This ritual is a key part of my high school life. Swimming has been my sport of choice for as long as I can remember. Although I’ve been a member of the varsity swim team throughout high school, I didn’t start my journey as a top-notch swimmer. The first time I tried to learn how to swim was 11 years…

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    and the patron was taken to the hospital. These are just a couple incidents at my particular pool, but many other aquatic environments have situations like these that give you the opportunity to help out in dangerous situations. In addition, we are also trained to recognize distressed or drowning swimmers. According to statistics, an estimated 372,000 people died from drowning in the year 2012. Additionally, between the year 2005 and 2014, the U.S alone averaged about 3,256 unintentional…

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    I lacked simple confidence, I would sit in the back of the classroom and not say a word. I figured if they can’t hear me, then I wouldn’t exist to no one. There was only one place where I felt more confidence about who I was, the pool was my, how you would say comfort place. I was able to swim to the very bottom and stay there for countless minutes thinking about my life, just enjoying the water on my skin and around me. Sometimes I would wish that I could just stay in the water forever and not…

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    I took a deep breath in and out trying to calm myself as our car approached the curb. “Good luck today. Swim fast.” My mom said as I slowly stepped out of the car. “Thanks.” I said trying to not let my excitement take over me. I was tingling inside because today I got to swim 200 butterfly at Junior Olympics. I know what you are probably thinking, Junior Olympics is not like the actual olympics that is held every four years with the gold, silver, and bronze medals just for children. Junior…

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    After suffering a very painful injury in high school from competitive swimming due to overtraining and improper body mechanics, my need to return to the sport gave me a life altering exposure to the impact of healthcare and wellness. To regain my strength and ability to swim I went through several months of physical therapy. My time working with the physical therapist made me realize that if I had only known more about my body and how it works than I most likely could have prevent the majority…

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